Originally posted by: saymyname
Kids look to their parents as role models and a gay family would send them some very weird signals.
Also, if we're going to allow gay couples, why not allow polygamy?
I'm going to take a guess and say that polygamy in it's practiced form introduces a number of social and economic difficulties that don't exist in homosexual relationships.
for example, for polygamy (in it's practiced form) to function adequately, there needs to be a much higher ratio of women to men. That doesn't exactly jive with the near 50/50 birthrate, and has been reported to lead to the exclusion of younger males from polygamist families and communities.
Also I fail to see what "weird signals" would be sent from homosexual parents.